DC area loses last on-air local folk music show

[acroyear]

With WAMU dropping its folk-bluegrass lineup a few years ago, and WETA's change today, there is now no outlet for folk music on the radio at all.

WETA's Mary Cliff, who had a long-running (over 32 years) show on Saturdays called "Traditions" has been let go, like every other WETA on-air employee, as part of the sudden shift to Classical.

Comments

[meapet.livejournal.com]

And as per usual for most of the local radio stations, we don't hear anything about it.
GRRRRR

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Nobody heard about it, least of all Mary.

Really, the WETA side of this was only hinted at, but really, nobody at WETA knew it was going to happen until today (hence the reason nobody's shows got decent send-offs).

There was a "rush-factor" on this that really confuses me. Normally, a format change takes a month or more from commitment to actualization. This was done within 24 hours with NOBODY knowing it was final until this morning (some learning it from the paper, I'm sure).